01:070:101Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (4) History of cultural anthropology; changing theoretical and methodological approaches; fieldwork, ethnographic writing, and the culture concept; cross-cultural analyses and comparisons; complex society; local, regional, and global perspectives.

01:070:102Introduction to Human Evolution (4) Evolutionary processes, including adaptation and speciation; fossil and archaeological records of human morphological and social-behavioral evolution.

01:070:104Introduction to Human Evolution Honors Laboratory (1) Laboratory honors course to accompany 01:070:102. Topics include lab and field methodologies in physical anthropology, human fossil record, primate evolution, human evolutionary biology, and evolutionary theory. Corequisite: 01:070:102. Students must have a grade-point average of 3.4 or better or permission of instructor to enroll.

01:070:105Introduction to Archaeology (4) Overview of human prehistory over the past 5 million years, from origins in Africa to the spread of people first to Asia and Europe, and later to Australia and the Americas, culminating in the archaeology of colonial contact between Europe and distant lands.

01:070:108Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology (4) Language as a social action, language and culture, language use in specific sociocultural contexts.

01:070:204Introduction to Social Evolution (3) Principles underlying social evolution with special emphasis on humans: natural selection, kinship, parent-offspring conflict, parental investment, parasites, sexual selection, cooperation, deceit, and self-deception.

01:070:205Evolution and Culture (3) Examination of current research on the relationship between evolutionary biology and culture. Topics include animal culture studies, cultural transmission theory, gene-culture coevolution, and the application of signaling theory to human cultural phenomena. Prerequisite: 01:070:204.

01:070:206Survey of New World Prehistory (3) Focus on the major cultural traditions and adaptations from the earliest appearance of humans in the Americas through the colonial period. Prerequisite: 01:070:105.

01:070:207Survey of Old World Prehistory (3) Focus on the major cultural traditions and adaptations from the earliest appearance of the human lineage to the establishment of literate complex societies and early civilizations. Prerequisite: 01:070:105.

01:070:208Survey of Historical Archaeology (3) Introduction to the archaeology of historic times-the interpretation�of the past using both archaeological residues and written documents. Emphasis on Africa, Britain, and North America. Prerequisite: 01:070:105.

01:070:210Approaches to Human Nature (3) Critique of the "cultural relativist" and "cultural constructionist" positions through a consideration of the literature on cultural universals, human ethology and sociobiology, small groups, and play.

01:070:212Survey of the Living Primates (3) Introduction to the primate order, emphasizing the morphological and behavioral adaptations of the major groups.

01:070:213Environment and Human Evolution (3) Analysis of influence of environment on evolution in record of human ancestry. Morphological and physiological adaptations of humans in reaction to environmental controls.

01:070:215Survey of Fossil Primates (3) Outline of primate evolution; origin of primates and primate relatives; description and paleoecology of fossil species, including Paleocene and Eocene species, Malagasy lemurs, first higher primates, New World and Old World monkeys, and Miocene apes; hominid origins.

01:070:216Anthropology and Modern Problems (3) Selected topics including conflict of productive and reproductive systems, location and nature of social power, roles of symbolism and zealotry in defining group boundaries.

01:070:220Food and Culture (3) Culinary customs studied cross-culturally. Food in relation to sex, kinship, politics, economics, and religion. Visual, olfactory, textural, and gastronomic food preferences. Values and nutrition. World nutritional systems.

01:070:222Anthropology of Sexuality and Eroticism (3) Anthropological approaches to human sexuality, including social evolutionary, ethnographic, cross-cultural, sociobiological, cultural constructionist, and postcolonial.

01:070:225Women in an Anthropological Perspective (3) Women in evolutionary and cross-cultural perspectives. Economic, public, and domestic roles; social status; gender and sexuality.

01:070:230Indians of North America I (3) Ways of life of North American Indians and Eskimos. Histories, languages, economic bases, social forms, and belief systems.

01:070:231Indians of North America II (3) Concentration by each student on a particular Indian society and culture.

01:070:232American Indians of New Jersey (3) Archaeological and ethnohistorical perspectives on the origins and way of life of the Lenape (Delaware). Prerequisite: 01:070:105.

01:070:238Anthropology of Europe (3) European societies and cultures in modern history; changing anthropological perspectives. Gender, ethnicity, and class. Representations and realities of Europe in the making, including issues of nation-building, colonialism, mass culture, and violence.

01:070:244Anthropology of South Asia (3) "Traditional" south Asia, emphasizing "Hindus"; contemporary reconstructions and contestations. Sexuality, gender, family, village, caste, religion; regional and national identities; class, urban south Asia, contemporary pop culture; the diaspora.

01:070:246Anthropology of Southeast Asia (3) Peoples of Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Singapore, indigenous and immigrant. Relative gender egalitarianism in relation to various subsistence types and religious systems. Intercultural relations in multiethnic societies.

01:070:248Anthropology of China (3) Chinese society and culture before and after 1949. Socialism and reform. Issues of gender, ethnicity, popular culture, ecology, and population. Internal diversity; China in a world context. No knowledge of Chinese required.

01:070:250Anthropology of the Contemporary United States (3) Older characterizations and analyses of "American" culture; current constructions and contestations of U.S. national, regional, and local culture(s). Ethnographic descriptions and analyses.

01:070:291,292,293,294Topics in Anthropology (1.5,1.5,1.5,1.5) Seven-week courses; may be taken consecutively or separately. Topics vary with term and instructor.

01:070:301Psychological Anthropology (3) Relation between social and cultural systems and psychological processes in different groups. Identity, perception, and motivational�patterns. Cultural construction of psychology in other cultures. Prerequisite: 01:070:101 or 01:830:101.

01:070:302Environment and Cultural Behavior (3) Relationships between cultural and environmental phenomena; how the relationships are studied and explained. Readings deal with culture and environment in Asia, Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Oceania. Prerequisite: 01:070:101 or permission of instructor.

01:070:303Wealth and Culture (3) Introduction to economic anthropology. Cultural notions of wealth in the United States, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Europe. Anthropological perspectives on economic inequality,�individualism, rationality, moral economy, exchange, consumption, production, and globalization.

01:070:304Political Anthropology (3) Comparative analysis of political systems and practices. Emergent anthropological theories of power, violence, and patterns of domination. Relation of culture to power and political practice. Politics in local and global contexts. Prerequisite: 01:070:101; one other course in cultural anthropology recommended.

01:070:305Anthropology of Development (3) Anthropological theories of and approaches to social, cultural, and economic development. Use of concepts such as "culture" and "social change" in construction of development paradigms and policies; role of anthropologists as practitioners, consultants, and critics in development projects; relation of "development" to lived experience of people being "developed." Prerequisite: 01:070:101.

01:070:306Anthropology of Education (3) Ways adults and children are organized for socialization and education. Comparison of such organization with other social institutions. Prerequisite: 01:070:101 or permission of instructor.

01:070:307Medical Anthropology (3) Cultural diversity and similarity in the interpretation of health, illness, and death. Preventive and therapeutic medicine. Premodern and modern populations. Interaction between western and other medical systems. Prerequisite: 01:070:101.

01:070:308Anthropology of Religion (3) Cross-cultural comparison of religious concepts, roles, and practices. The analysis of religious symbolism. Sociopolitical and economic concomitants. Prerequisite: 01:070:101 or permission of instructor.

01:070:309Visual Anthropology (3) Use of film, videotape, still photography, and painting as media of anthropological analysis. Prerequisite: 01:070:101.

01:070:310Human Aggression (3) Roots and circumstance of human aggressive behavior. Interplay of phylogenetic and cultural variables. Relevance of ethnological and paleontological data to modern forms of personal violence and warfare. Not open to first-year students.

01:070:311History of Anthropology (3) Development of contemporary professional western anthropology from 18th- and 19th-century roots to modern schools of thought. Prerequisite: 3 credits in anthropology or permission of instructor.

01:070:312Language and Social Diversity (3) Language and communication in social life. Class, ethnic, and sex-role differences in language use. Bilingualism and linguistic diversity studied cross-culturally. Prerequisite: 01:070:101 or a linguistics course or permission of instructor.

01:070:313Culture, Language, and Cognition (3) Cross-cultural study of human thought. Influence of language on culture and cognition. Universals in language and culture. Implications for ethnography and communication. Prerequisite: 01:070:101 or a linguistics course or permission of instructor.

01:070:314Introduction to Ethnomusicology (3) Methods, aims, and findings of studies of ethnic music and dance. Music in culture, stability and change, and acculturation. Stylistic features and comparative analyses of selected musical forms and instrumentation.

01:070:315American Indian Music and Dance (3) Cross-cultural description and analysis of music and dance of historical and contemporary American Indians.

01:070:317Method and Analysis in Cultural Anthropology (3) Designing and implementing research projects: formulating problems; selecting methodologies; methods of collecting, constructing, and analyzing qualitative, quantitative, and textual data (emphasis on computer-based techniques). Training in participant-observation, census and questionnaire construction and coding, interview techniques, and narrative analysis. Prerequisite: 01:070:101 or permission of instructor.

01:070:318Reading Ethnographic Writing (3) Exemplary fieldwork-based monographs in cultural anthropology, with an emphasis on most recent ones. Ethnography as text; ethnography as cultural description, inscription, interpretation, and criticism; ethnography as theory-laden versus ethnography as data for theorizing. Prerequisite: 01:070:101 or permission of instructor.

01:070:320Diaspora, Multiculturalism, and Ethnicity in the United States (3) Theory and ethnography of recent immigrations; community, identity construction; class, race, gender, and age; local, national, and transnational factors; various case studies. Prerequisite: 01:070:101 or permission of instructor.

01:070:323Women Writing Culture (3) How gender, power, and difference shape the writings of women ethnographers. Interpretation, analysis, authority, intellectual representation, and creativity; life experiences and ethnography. Prerequisite: 01:070:101. Credit not given for both this course and 01:988:323.

01:070:326Pleistocene Hominid Adaptations (3) Cultural and biological aspects of hominid evolution during the Pleistocene. Prerequisites: 01:070:102, 105 or permission of instructor.

01:070:327Post-Pleistocene Hominid Adaptations (3) African, Asian, and European cultural developments after the Pleistocene, including origins of farming, village life, and complex society. Prerequisite: 01:070:105 or permission of instructor.

01:070:330Archaeology of Australasia (3) Prehistory of Australasia in its worldwide perspective, with special reference to Asian origins, impact of human colonization, and interpretative models based on modern aboriginal hunter-gatherer behavior. Prerequisite: 01:070:105.

01:070:332North American Archaeology (3) Prehistory of North America from the appearance of humans on the continent to European discovery. Varieties of adaptation, cultural interrelationships, developmental trends. Prerequisite: 01:070:105.

01:070:333Colonial Archaeology (3) Archaeology of post-Colombian European colonial spread worldwide, with particular reference to North America and Africa. Strong focus on practical laboratory work, specifically analysis of colonial artifacts, including ceramics, glass, pipes, and fauna. Prerequisites: 01:070:105, 208.

01:070:334Field Study in Archaeology (6) Supervised participation in fieldwork with instruction in excavation�methods and practice. Personnel and field project location vary from year to year. Fees: tuition, transportation to site, room and board. Prerequisite: 01:070:105; open to juniors and seniors only. Minimum of 6 to 10 weeks at field location. Course may be repeated with permission of department.

01:070:335Analysis of Archaeological Data (3) Processing and analysis of new archaeological data from supervised�field programs; metrical, physical, and statistical analysis may be utilized on various classes of material. Prerequisites: 01:070:105, 334.

01:070:338Anthropology of Africa (3) Precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial African cultures and societies. Gender, ethnicity, and class. Representations and realities of Africa in a global context, including issues of development, conservation, and tourism. Popular culture and contemporary rural and urban experiences. Prerequisite: One introductory course in social science or permission of instructor.

01:070:340Anthropology of Aboriginal Australia (3) Aboriginal cultures of Australia and their "re-invention" in response to European and East Asian contact, with emphasis on kinship and other social ideologies, ritual and gender, and microsociology of everyday life. Prerequisite: 01:070:101 or permission of instructor.

01:070:348Primate Socioecology (3) Principles and data of primate ecology. Feeding and ranging behaviors. Niche separation and ecological functioning of primate social groups. Prerequisites: 01:070:102, 212 or permission of instructor.

01:070:349Advanced Physical Anthropology (3) Advanced evolutionary theory. Biochemical and genetic approaches. Primate morphology and behavior. Modern theories of human variability. Prerequisite: 01:070:102 or permission of instructor.

01:070:350Primatology and Human Evolution (3)Anatomy, behavior, and evolution of primates. Evolution of social life. Sexual behavior, dominance, aggression, territoriality, social alliances, communication, and ecology.
Pre- or Corequisites: 01:070:102, 212 or permission of instructor.

01:070:354Functional and Developmental Anatomy of the Primate Skeleton (3) Morphology and function of the human/primate skeleton, integrating developmental bone biology, functional morphology and biomechanics, and descriptive musculoskeletal anatomy. Prerequisite: 01:070:102.

01:070:355Laboratory in Skeletal Biology of Primates (1) Examination of human skeletal and dental anatomy in comparison to closely related primates and casts of fossil hominids. Emphasis on identification of human bone fragments and teeth. Pre- or corequisite: 01:070:354.

01:070:356Human Variation (3) History of the concept of race in the West. Physical anthropological perspective, with emphases on human variation through time and on the principles of study of modern human variability. Prerequisite: 01:070:102 or permission of instructor.

01:070:358Introduction to Human Osteology (3) Intensive introduction to human osteology, bone biology and growth, and paleopathology. Basis for advanced work in paleoanthropology, forensic anthropology, bioarchaeology, and osteometry. Prerequisite: 01:070:102 or equivalent. Corequisite: 01:070:359. Permission of instructor required.

01:070:359Human Osteology Laboratory (3) Accompanies 01:070:358. Intensive practical training in osteology lab identification and analysis techniques. Prerequisite: 01:070:102 or equivalent. Corequisite: 01:070:358. Permission of instructor required.

01:070:360Families (3) Traditional family types and organization studied cross-culturally. Modern western family and alternatives: utopian communities, "intentional" communities. Prerequisite: 01:070:101.

01:070:361Hunters and Gatherers (3) Consideration of data from aboriginal Australia, the Southern African bushmen, and elsewhere, in light of social theory, including�gender studies. Prerequisite: 01:070:101 or permission of instructor.

01:070:363Race, Class, Gender, and Schooling (3) Examines racial and gender differences in adolescents' school performance. Structural, historical, and cultural foci. Ethnographic and autobiographical cases of black students and other students of color. Prerequisite: 01:070:101 or permission of instructor. Credit not given for both this course and either 01:014:363 or 01:988: 363.

01:070:364Sex Roles and Social Structure (3) Sexual differences in primates; implications for social, economic, and political relationships in contemporary society. Cross- cultural comparison. Adaptive and maladaptive features of sociosexual patterns. Prerequisite: 01:070:102 or permission of instructor.

01:070:366Anthropology of Old Age (3) Cross-cultural approaches to aging and the aged. Sex-role differences between aged men and women in various societies. Prerequisite: 01:070:101.

01:070:368Anthropology of Mass Media (3) Mass media and culture. The impact of mass media on the production and consumption of cultural identities. Inquiry into representations of gender, sexuality, the body, ethnicity, race, and nationhood in mass media discourse. The mass media in a postcolonial, global, and transnational context. Pre- or corequisite: 01:070:101 or permission of instructor.

01:070:370Folklore and Ideology (3) Folklore and expressive culture; the political and ideological importance of narrative traditions. Interpretations of folklore with reference to gender, ethnicity, the family, and the state. Folklore as an agent of social transformation: socialism, nationalism, fascism. Prerequisite: 01:070:101.

01:070:371The Politics of Culture (3) Politics of cultural processes. Race, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality in representations. Theories of cultural production, domination, distribution, and consumption. Resistance and nonmainstream culture; ethnographic examples of ideology, economy, and global cultural flows. Prerequisite: 01:070:101.

01:070:372Anthropology of the Body (3) Body in history and society. Comparative approaches to cultural construction of bodies. Impact of gender, sexuality, ethno-national, racial, and class differences on body practices. Formation of normative discourses on body in medical science, consumer culture,�mass media. Prerequisite: 01:070:101. Recommended: an additional course in cultural anthropology.

01:070:374Localities and Global Systems (3) Interaction of transnational and local processes through case studies and theory. Political economy, world systems, and cultural imperialism. Global culture and media. Intercultural representation and stereotyping. Diaspora, transnational movements, and nation-state. Prerequisite: 01:070:101. Recommended: an additional course in cultural anthropology.

01:070:375Jewish Immigrant Experience (3) Comparative study of modern Jewish immigrant experience, focusing on European and Middle Eastern communities resettled in America, Israel, and Europe. Credit not given for both this course and 01:506:375 or 01:563:375.

01:070:376Power and Difference (3) Emergent theories of inequality. Social constructions of difference. Topics challenging conventional notions of cultural anthropology-identity, representation, discrimination, exclusion, marginalization, contestation, resistance. Prerequisite: 01:070:101. Recommended: two additional courses in cultural anthropology. Intended for majors.

01:070:378The Anthropology of Gender (3) Gender as an analytic category; exchange, production, reproduction, binarism, representation. Intersections of gender with class, race, and ethnicity. Theoretical and ethnographic readings. Prerequisite: 01:070:101 or permission of instructor. Credit not given for both this course and 01:988:378.

01:070:379Gender and Power in Africa (3) Experiences and expressions of gender in historical and contemporary Africa emphasizing issues of diversity and commonality, modalities of power, and articulation with other forms of difference, such as ethnicity, class, and nationality. Credit not given for both this course and 01:988:379.

01:070:380Culture, Memory, History (3) Anthropological approaches to history and memory. Theory, method; comparative study of remembering, forgetting, commemorating, narrating, ritualizing, structuring time. Early, contemporary scholarship; political economy, identity, authority, representation in shaping cultural memory, historical constructions. Prerequisite: 01:070:101 or course in sociology or history approved by instructor.

01:070:389Ethnography of Gender in South Asia (3) An explanation of gendered practices in South Asia. Ethnographies from Hindu, Buddhist, and Muslim communities explore the various aspects of gender in particular South Asian contexts. Credit not given for both this course and 01:988:389.

01:070:390Plio-Pleistocene Hominid Anatomy (3) Human fossil record during Plio-Pleistocene; taxonomy, phylogenetics, and functional morphology. Origins of Hominidae, diversity in Australopithecus and Paranthropus, rise of Homo and of Homo sapiens. Castes and published reports; methods of inference. Prerequisite: 01:070:102.

01:070:391Lithic Analysis in Archaeology (3) Archaeological study of how stone tools were made and used. Consideration of manufacturing technology, use and wear, experimental replication, and their implications for archaeological interpretation. Prerequisite: 01:070:105.

01:070:392Faunal Analysis in Archaeology (3) Identification of animal bones, teeth, and other faunal remains in archaeological contexts. Quantifying number of individuals and skeletal elements; butchery techniques and bone modification and their implications for archaeological interpretation. Prerequisite: 01:070:105.

01:070:393Cultural Resource Management (3) Legal, administrative, executive, and practical aspects of the theory and practice of cultural resource management, with emphasis on archaeological resources. One field trip. Prerequisite: 01:070:105.

01:070:394Microstratigraphic Analysis in Archaeology (3) Field and laboratory studies of geological context in archaeological sites. Data collection and sampling, sediment analysis, and reporting.�Interpretation of depositional and postdepositional features. Recommended: 01:460:340 (may be concurrently enrolled). Credit not given for both this course and 01:460:394.

01:070:395Quantification of Archaeological Data (3) Data analysis, coding schemes, data management, and the application of statistical techniques to problems in archaeology. Emphasis on creating, maintaining, and using computer files of archaeological data. Prerequisite: 01:070:105.

01:070:401Theories in Cultural Anthropology (3) Analysis and comparison of the major contemporary theoretical approaches in cultural anthropology. Prerequisite: 6 credits in anthropology or permission of instructor.

01:070:402Theories in Physical Anthropology (3) Intensive study of major figures in physical anthropological thought. Origins and spread of new ideas; methods of study of humans and nonhuman primates. Prerequisite: 01:070:102 or permission of instructor.

01:070:403Advanced Seminar in North American Indians (3) Each student conducts research on specific topics in North American Indians. Prerequisite: Two courses from 01:070:230, 231, 315, or related courses in other departments approved by instructor; or permission of instructor.

01:070:404Advanced Seminar in Archaeology (3) Selected topics and problems in archaeology. Prerequisite: 01:070:105. Open only to juniors and seniors.

01:070:405Perspectives on Latino Ethnic Consciousness (3) Contemporary understandings about formation of Latino ethnic consciousness in the United States. Theoretical and critical perspectives informing social issues relevant to Latinos. Credit not given for both this course and 01:836:405.

01:070:410Explanation in Anthropology (3) Analysis of anthropologists' explanations, with consideration of such topics as the explanatory use of generalizations, models, narratives, culture-specific categories, and causal, functionalist, and essentialist claims. Prerequisite: 01:070:101 or permission of instructor.

01:070:412Topics in African Prehistory and Paleoanthropology (3) Focused consideration of current research and explanatory theory, on topics ranging from hominid origins to Holocene adaptations in Africa. Prerequisite: 01:070:326 or 327 or permission of instructor.

01:070:414Topics in European Prehistory and Paleoanthropology (3) Focused consideration of current research and explanatory theory, on topics ranging from initial human colonization of Europe to Holocene adaptations in Europe. Prerequisite: 01:070:326 or 327 or permission of instructor.

01:070:420Evolutionary Genetics: Humans and Other Primates (3) Analysis of molecular evolution of human and primate genomes, genetic and phenotypic evolution, the genetic basis of being human, and primate phylogeny. Prerequisites: 01:447:380 and 01:070:102 or 212 or permission of instructor. Credit not given for both this course and 01:447: 420.

01:070:426South African Archaeology (3) Archaeology, ecology, and historical archaeology of South Africa. Covers two million years, early hominids to colonial contact. Prerequisites: 01:070:102 and 105 or permission of instructor.

01:070:486Gender, Development, Environment: Policies, Politics, Perspectives (3) Using ethnography and gender as a category of analysis, examines the experiences and implications of transnational development and environmental policies in specific localities. Prerequisite: 01:988:101, 201, 202, 235, or permission of instructor. Credit not given for both this course and 01:988:486.

01:070:495,496Independent Study in Anthropology (BA,BA) Supervised study or research on selected anthropological topics. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.

01:070:497,498Honors in Anthropology (3,3) Two-term supervised project, usually resulting in a thesis, for qualified seniors. Prerequisites: Senior standing and acceptance into departmental honors program.